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Regarded as a defensive liability, it was fortified in about 1500 with a wall and towers, one of which can be seen overhung with ivy above the cliffs.

On the walls is painted an amazing list of products for sale, including photographic chemicals and equipment, trusses, assorted tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes, elastic hosiery, medicated wines, teas

few changes here since the time of photograph no 38828: the gas lamp (left) has gone, the left-hand porch has been replaced, and the creeper on the centre porch seems to have migrated to the wall

Knott-End was once a fishermen's village with a small white customs house, and brave attempts were made to turn it into a resort renamed St Bernard's-on-Sea with an improved promenade and a high-walled

The post office (note the recruiting posters on its wall, right) was kept by Henry Chatters. Beyond is the Shoulder of Mutton, whose landlord Frederick Godday was also a butcher.

This early photograph of Castleton at the head of the Hope Valley shows the intricate network of drystone walls which surrounds the village.

All that remains are fragments of the tower keep and the curtain wall.

Halfway down on the left, an ironstone wall retains two mullioned windows from a former cottage. Because it was thought to add character to the village, it was saved from demolition.

It is stuccoed - a fine plaster has been used for coating the walls. Two Roman soldiers hold the bell - appropriate for this town which was a Roman settlement.

The castle was founded in c1200, and the initial design is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square keep and a curtain wall.

Totnes had a medieval wall around the centre, much of it still intact.

The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall.

The walls of the passage are built with Roman stone, including used coffins.

When this stretch of the wall was excavated, the archaeologists found that the ramparts dated from Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman and medieval times, and that the earth bank grew with each occupation.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

It contains Tudor murals and painted texts on its walls, and its parish registers go back to the same period.

The walled gardens were large enough to make each family self-sufficient in vegetables, thus helping to preserve their health. Most of the farm buildings survive today, except for the large barn.

The walled gardens were large enough to make each family self-sufficient in vegetables, thus helping to preserve their health. Most of the farm buildings survive today, except for the large barn.

Inside, there is a small ruined tower.When this stretch of the wall was excavated, the archaeologists found that the ramparts dated from Roman, Saxon,Viking, Norman and medieval times, and that the

This is a steep site, and the road along the front of Draycott Terrace is supported by a substantial stone wall. The terraced cottages in Primrose Valley below are still intact.

The cottages have small gardens, walled enclosures, sheds and washing lines. The line of the Par to Newquay railway can be seen across the valley.

This is how the church is seen by motorists coming from St Austell, before the road passes below the solid churchyard wall on the right.

It was then that Roger Bigod III built the town wall, which was some 1200 yds in length and had a number of semi-circular towers.

The gate in the wall opposite the church gate was not there in the 1927 photograph. The school chapel was designed by Mr G E S Streatfield and built by Messrs Bowman of Stamford.